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NewsPicks AI: New Hearing Aid Company, Foretell, Brings in Steve Martin and Others as Fans
“I’ve tried different brands of hearing aids, and they're good, but they're not this good,” says Martin in a Zoom interview. He visited...
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NewsPicks AI: The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
Musk said he wanted to downsize the federal workforce. What was the right size, exactly? As lean as possible. Entire agencies were gutted...
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NewsPicks AI: Scenes From Charlie Kirk’s Impromptu Memorial in Utah
Young people dominated the hospital crowd, which makes sense, since Kirk’s major accomplishment was to promote his brand of rightwing politics to a...
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NewsPicks AI: The Baby Died. Whose Fault Is It?
Bi understood how far-fetched her allegations sounded. “If it were not for all the hard evidence, it’s too shocking to believe did...
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NewsPicks AI: Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy rich. Ideally both. A team might field around...
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NewsPicks AI: My Couples Retreat With 3 AI Chatbots and the Humans Who Love Them
I found the human-AI couples by posting in relevant Reddit communities. My initial outreach hadn’t gone well. Some of the Redditors were convinced...
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NewsPicks AI: How Steve Jobs Wrote the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever
In early June 2005, Steve Jobs emailed his friend Michael Hawley a draft of a speech he had agreed to deliver to Stanford...
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NewsPicks AI: This Russian Tech Bro Helped Steal $93 Million and Landed in US Prison. Then Putin Called
Vladislav Klyushin was having, by any measure, an awful day. The judge in his case had brushed aside his lawyers’ arguments and his...
